San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 2009 by Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/BAP219AP10.DTL&t
“Death penalty cases are the most challenging, complex cases,” said Elisabeth Semel, who directs the death penalty clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law. “In my experience,” she said, “individuals who want to represent themselves are often lacking the legal skill to do so and have profound emotional problems.”
Bloomberg, August 20, 2009 by Connie Guglielmo
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ahgf6sIeFZ4c
The Justice Department may investigate the exchange between the companies even though Palm rejected Apple’s proposal, said Daniel Rubinfeld, a former deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust. “If I were at DOJ, I would definitely be interested,” said Rubinfeld, who is now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2009 by David Wessel
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125070781745443839.html
The recession was more than a year old when Mr. Obama took office, the Fed already had cut interest rates to zero and the economy was still in free fall. “If ever there was a case for a fiscal stimulus, this was it,” says Alan Auerbach, a University of California, Berkeley, economist who will kick off an appraisal of the stimulus at this weekend’s Fed retreat.
The Oakland Tribune, August 19, 2009 by Paul T. Rosynsky
http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_13163669?IADID
David Sklansky, a UC Berkeley law professor, said the report could help Mehserle with his central argument that he was, in part, a victim of organizational mismanagement and made a mistake during a chaotic situation. “On the one hand, it makes what happened look even more horrible,” Sklansky said. “On the other hand, it strengthens the argument by the officer that it was not entirely his fault.”
San Francisco Chronicle, August 19, 2009 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/19/BUQH199RJU.DTL&type=printable
Some legal experts believe the growing confusion will create more opposition to the deal, which could factor into the settlement hearing and potentially limit the scope of the books program. But Pamela Samuelson, co-director of the UC Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, said it’s more likely to lead to a sort of collective paralysis that prevents affected parties from taking any action.
-KQED Radio, August 17, 2009 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R908171730
“The fact that he is, in my judgment, wrong, or the fact that he went to Washington and espoused views with which I disagree, and with which I think the vast bulk of academics disagree, is not in itself grounds for dismissing a faculty member at a university. Unpopularity is not sufficient. Criminality of a high order would be.”
-The Associated Press, August 17, 2009 by Terrence Chea
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_13147497
Christopher Edley Jr., Berkeley’s law school dean, has rejected calls to dismiss Yoo, saying the university doesn’t have the resources to investigate his Justice Department work, which involved classified intelligence.
Arizona Republic, August 17, 2009 by Andrew Johnson
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/08/17/20090817biz-lifelock0817.html
Hoofnagle, who filed a declaration supporting LifeLock’s pending motion in the Experian case, said that while LifeLock’s ads are misleading, consumers should be able to hire companies to set fraud alerts. “Identity theft refers to a broad range of crimes, including financial and medical identity theft and even impersonation,” he said. “(But) even with credit-monitoring services, you can fall victim to all three types of identity theft.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, August 17, 2009 by Victoria Colliver
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/17/MNT4198FQ4.DTL&type=printable
“If somebody is going to say the public plan option is socialism, then that person is the same person who would think Medicare is socialism,” said Melissa Rodgers, associate director of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security, explaining that Medicare retains the same hybrid of a plan administered by the government but delivered by private enterprise as the public option.
-Youth Radio, August 20, 2009 by Emily Beaver
http://www.youthradio.org/news/tenhealthcareterms
A public health insurance plan would be one option for people who don’t have insurance, or don’t have insurance that covers their medical needs, Rodgers says…. In the individual market, nothing prevents insurers from denying participants coverage or charging high prices, Rodgers says. “The individual market is the wild, wild west of insurance,” she says.
The Associated Press, August 16, 2009 by Holly Ramer
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hy-198lZYAltwbqaBxHgUY7damuwD9A437HG0
Some federal agencies collect locally-issued Social Security numbers from grant and loan applicants and report them to credit bureaus as if they were U.S. numbers, regardless of whether the numbers already are in use. That’s the beginning of the problem, which isn’t identity theft but can create some of the same headaches when identities become linked in the eyes of lenders or creditors. “This can really slow you down if there is a default or a history of bad payment,” said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, director of information privacy programs at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
The New York Times, August 13, 2009 by John Schwartz
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/us/14dissent.html?_r=2
Jesse H. Choper, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said the judge was hardly a fierce opponent of capital punishment. “I don’t see him as someone who is unexceptionally opposed,” Mr. Choper said.
Elisabeth A. Semel, director of the Death Penalty Clinic at Berkeley, which trains lawyers to defend people facing the death penalty, said many jurists had been shaken by the rise of exonerations due to DNA evidence. “I think it’s been shattering to judges who had a fair amount of confidence in the system,” she said.